"Rama teaches us a combination of spiritual paths like Taoism,
mysticism, and Christianity." I did not describe what might happen
at a typical Centre meeting. Rama, who usually arrived about forty
minutes late, might begin with a discourse on the teachings of Lao Tzu,
Castaneda's Don Juan, or Christ. Then, couching parables in
modern terms, he might proclaim: "Short is the path of the fast lane
on the freeway to enlightenment." Or he might say: "As the coyote
tries to catch the road runner, so too tries the seeker to comprehend
the life of a fully enlightened teacher through rational means."
He might make the several hundred disciples laugh with: "Many are cold
(called) but few are frozen (chosen)."
He often lectured the men in the Centre that our untamed sexual energy
had been stunting the spiritual growth of our sister disciples.
He often lectured the women in the Centre that they needed
to learn how to emotionally detach themselves from men. And he
often lectured both sexes that he attracted very powerful souls,
that we were way too powerful for our own good, and that we
had been making him physically ill by relentlessly attacking him
in the inner world.
He lectured, too, about the inevitable eclipsing of the world's
spiritual light, a process which seemed to be perpetually accelerating.
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